Photobucket fail

[meridian_rose]

Photobucket finally made it to me and my images. Had an email this morning and my header and layout images at LJ/DW/tumblr went missing, being the most visible of the pictures I had hosted there. I guess I'll have to start doing all the fic art again here and at AO3 but for now I've focussed on uploading the layout images to Cloudinary and updating those :/

(Oddly Tumblr and LJ images went first; the header was missing at DW (maybe because it goes via grumpysigs rotating banner) but most images were still showing up at DW.)

Comments

[cmcmck]

They haven't got to me yet but I'm looking to transfer my stuff elsewhere as a matter of urgency. If I'm going to pay, I'll pay for a professional photographers' site!

[meridian_rose]

Exactly! For less than the money they are asking, people are pointing out you could host a whole website, get a domain name, emails, and a ton of image storage. Also it's possible pb will fold shortly if they're that desperate for cash so I wouldn't given them a penny regardless. Their actions are a masterclass in how not to treat your customers.
Best wishes for you getting it all transferred and updating where necessary :)

[cmcmck]

In the interim, I run a chrome based system and they give me oodles of photo storage on the cloud for free!

What about this don't PB understand?

[meridian_rose]

Yes! There are loads of other options out there. PB have overestimated the value of their service.

[dbzxenaman2.livejournal.com]

Photobucket has now become unusable. I guess they want to force money from us, in order to be able to link our images to other websites. I just decide against going to another image hosting site as it could be just as bad or worse, so I just have been directly uploading pictures to LJ and have not had one issue.

[meridian_rose]

LJ scrapbook, yes! Glad it's working for you :) That said I don't really trust LJ after all the things they've pulled over the last cpuple of years. They could stop third party hosting and since I post from DW with crossposting to LJ, and additionally host fic banners and other image-based fanworks (eg photostory) at AO3, that's not something I'd rely on.